Burden

The Dead Man's Burden By Matt Bird Copyright 2011 Matt Bird Smashwords Edition Smashwords Edition License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. Other Ebooks by Matt...

From the historical perspective, the two central problems facing most of the developing countries are: Who should bear the burden of the costs of development? and How should these costs be shared between those in the urban and rural sectors? The inevitable conflicts between the two have, in fact, been a long standing theme, reflected in the debates, in Britain over the Corn Laws, in the United States over industrial tariffs, and in Russia over the size of the "scissors." The book provides for the first time a unifying framework within which these questions can be systematically approached.

The burden of disease quantifies mortality and morbidity
due to a given disease or risk factor. The most commonly
used measure is the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY),
which combines the years of life lost due to disability with
the years of life lost due to death. This measure allows to
compare diseases or risk factors in terms of their public
health importance. The World Health Organization has
been investigating the contribution of a range of risk
factors, such as malnutrition, smoking and lack of access
to water and sanitation, to the burden of disease.

In order to provide comparable estimates of exposure to outdoor air
pollution for all 14 WHO regions, models developed by the World Bank
were used to estimate concentrations of inhalable particles (PM10) (Pandey
et al., 2004). Specifically, economic, meteorologic, and demographic data
and available PM measurements in 304 cities were used to estimate PM10
levels in all 3211 cities worldwide with populations greater than 100,000 and
capital cities.